Q. What would you do differently if you could do it all over again?
I would spend less time worrying.
-Andra Rush
I should have bought Office Depot for $15 million in 1987.
-Tom Stemberg
Be less tolerant of good people who weren't working out.
-Pete Wakeman
I would have moved from a centrally controlled organization to a decentralized federation of independent business units even sooner than I did.
-Pat McGovern
Nothing.
-Frank Venegas
I would have purchased stock in Microsoft when it came out.
-James Goodnight
Nothing.
-Laura Wakeman
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